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Build a personalized world map for your wall that chronicles your travels, one country at a time

  • Katie Medlock
  • 05/20/2015

[gallery_extend] Made from black matte vinyl over a stark white base, the curves of each nation’s boundaries are etched carefully, ready to be peeled away as a trophy of one’s travels. Seeing each destination uncovered surely inspires future discoveries and even a healthy dose of competitiveness,...

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INFOGRAPHIC: How food waste has become a huge global problem

  • Lucy Wang
  • 05/20/2015

Every year, an estimated 1.2 to 2 billion tons of food is wasted—a massive amount of food that, if saved, would be more enough to feed the world’s hungry. Food waste isn’t just a humanitarian issue however; the problem is also a waste of land, water, energy and money. To put food wastage in perspective,...

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Architecture

Cantilevered holiday home frames views of Scotland’s Small Isles

  • Lucy Wang
  • 05/20/2015

[gallery_extend] Though contemporary in design, the Faire Chaolais alludes to traditional Highland agricultural building styles with its gabled and cantilevered first floor clad in larch. The home’s lower floor, which is built into a gravel slope and flanked by glazed end walls, comprises three bedrooms...

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Architecture

Hong Kong's Community Green Station blends bamboo screens and shipping containers

  • Ana Lisa
  • 05/20/2015

[gallery_extend] The Community Green Station in Sha Tin was built as a temporary shelter to house exhibitions and workshops that promote the importance of recycling. It consists of a cluster of closed, opened and semi-opened spaces built in a modular, flexible and prefab way. Its Oriental-style, green...

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Sweden’s “most sought after home” was created from Hemnet's big data

  • Lucy Wang
  • 05/20/2015

[gallery_extend] [youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhEIo0cBQEs&w=537&h-302] The Hemnet House is an innovative example of data-driven design that’s appropriately nicknamed the “House of Clicks” for the crowdsourced process that determined the building’s many characteristics, from...

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Architecture

Zaha Hadid's first project in Mexico is a honeycomb housing complex

  • Lidija Grozdanic
  • 05/19/2015

[gallery_extend] The complex, located to the southwest of Monterrey in the Huajuco Canyon, comprises 981 residential units ranging from single-person lofts to four-bedroom apartments. Instead of designing 12 residential towers envisioned in the original brief, the architects opted for an interlocking...

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New concrete can repair its own cracks with bacteria

  • Greg Beach
  • 05/19/2015

[gallery_extend] Jonkers originally began work on the bio-concrete when approached by a concrete technologist who wondered whether the safety of concrete could be improved using a biological solution. The cracks that form in concrete are not simply unsightly. "The problem with cracks in concrete is...

[gallery_extend] Jonkers originally began work on the bio-concrete when approached by a concrete technologist who wondered whether...

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Samuel Bernier's DIY Instructions Transform a Fire Extinguisher Into a Gorgeous Floor Lamp

  • Lori Zimmer
  • 05/19/2015

Samuel Bernier’s new floor lamp is upcycled from old fire extinguisher parts - and the industrial designer is sharing the DIY instructions! Named Achille Le Grand after designer Achille Castiglioni’s Arco lamp, the arched floor lamp was dreamed up during an upcycling workshop. Bernier has created a simple...

Samuel Bernier’s new floor lamp is upcycled from old fire extinguisher parts - and the industrial designer is sharing the DIY instructions!...

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Architecture

Bolivia's Ecolodge del Lago takes inspiration from traditional Lak'a Uta architecture

  • Ana Lisa
  • 05/19/2015

[gallery_extend] The Ecolodge del Lago is 20 minutes walk from Copacabana's town center, across the road from a pebbled beach on the Lake Titicaca. It offers sustainable accommodation in many earth cabins inspired by vernacular Altiplano homes called Lak'a Uta, which means 'Earth homes' in Aymara. Each...

[gallery_extend] The Ecolodge del Lago is 20 minutes walk from Copacabana's town center, across the road from a pebbled beach on the...

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This 3D-printed mini jet engine can roar up to 33,000 RPM

  • Jane Mountain
  • 05/19/2015

When it comes to 3D printing parts for aircraft and other heavy machinery, engineers have barely scratched the surface. Using a technique called direct metal laser melting, engineers at GE Aviation have created a mini jet engine that fits in your backpack (albeit, a large one) and can also roar up to 33,000 RPM,...

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Architecture

Could solar-powered floating farms provide enough food for the entire world?

  • Lucy Wang
  • 05/19/2015

[gallery_extend] The Smart Floating Farms (SFF) are designed as smart and fully automated systems that combine solar energy, hydroponics, and aquaculture. According to the architects, the commercially viable SFF project was envisioned with existing well-tested materials and technologies. The farms would...

[gallery_extend] The Smart Floating Farms (SFF) are designed as smart and fully automated systems that combine solar energy, hydroponics,...

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Architecture

Barkow Leibinger’s timber-clad campus puts a contemporary spin on medieval architecture

  • Lucy Wang
  • 05/19/2015

[gallery_extend] The medieval Waischenfeld village comprises a dense network of indigenous masonry and post-and-beam timber gabled-roof buildings. The architects respected the style and scale of Waischenfeld by splitting the campus programmatic spaces into four gabled-roof buildings, instead of a tall...

[gallery_extend] The medieval Waischenfeld village comprises a dense network of indigenous masonry and post-and-beam timber gabled-roof...

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